The guest speaker explains the appeal of being unreachable and using a plain text editor, like Vim, which allows their website to withstand the test of time for hundreds of years.
Computer scientist Sebastian Seung compares the different ways one can write code to the styles of writing essays, highlighting the importance of clean, parsimonious code for programming beginners. He also discusses how asking the right questions and understanding the context is key to a successful interview.
This platform is like a multiplayer game for programmers where they can find and interact with other pieces of code, test and deploy their own code and even find ways to monetize it. The platform shows a hockey stick growth graph since it acts like a social network for programmers.
The host discusses the challenges of programming episodes during the pandemic and how the absence of hair and makeup affected the show's format.
The focus of programming should shift towards the small part that requires human genius and the mess machine generates, to avoid detachment down the line. Automating the code generation process may lead to the forgetting of the functions' purpose and loss of human input.
Derek Sivers explains why he learned programming out of necessity to automate time-consuming tasks while running his business CD Baby and shares his recommended directives.
